Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] VII
From: "John R. Fulton Jr." <JRFjr@compuserve.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:55:00 -0600
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Rob--
THANK YOU.
Your note said what I was thinking, but much better.
I, too, would be very interested in examples that are NOT yawn inducing.
John


>
>I need some decoding help:
>
>  ". . . sure looks like NGO photography to me."  As in "non-governmental
>organization"?  If so, what specifically do you mean by "NGO
>photography"?  What particular style/viewpoint do you instantly
>associate with the photography created for NGO's all over the world?
>
>"I've had a number of friends complain that photojournalism is dying. A
>number have bailed out and gone on to more commercial ventures."
>Speaking of stifled yawns, photojournalists "bailing" and moving to more
>commercial ventures is stale news.  It's been happening since the day a
>talented news photographer learned that
>fashion/commercial/wedding/children-and-dog work paid far better and
>didn't require getting dirty hands (or recurring nightmares).  Did a guy
>like John Stanmeyer of VII just get confused somewhere along the way,
>since he was a fashion/commercial photographer and is now an
>international PJ.  What's that all about?
>
>"whining pollyanna rubric"  Whose?  I got lost in that sentence; is it
>those showing "editorial disinterest" or the photojournalists?  In
>either case, please present concrete examples.  I'm not sure I'm clear
>on your notion of a "whining pollyanna rubric" in any case.
>
>And speaking of concrete examples, please offer a few links to sites
>with more potent, less yawn-inducing photojournalism.  I'm seriously
>excited by the prospect, as I found the VII site one of the most
>compelling I've seen in a long time.
>
>Rob Schneider
>
>
>
>Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>
>>  I don't know, but it sure looks like NGO photography to me.
>>  I've had a number of friends complain that photojournalism is dying. A
>>  number have bailed out and gone on to more commercial ventures.  Which
>>  make wonder if this isn't a coming ground swell of _concerned
>>  photographers_ trying to stem the tide of editorial disinterest with
>>  their whining pollyanna rubric.
>>  Albeit the work is technically sound, I had to stifle a number of 
>>mental yawns.
>>
>>   Slobodan Dimitrov
>>
>
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